Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician. The term is often used interchangeably with physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor `knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counselling about lethal doses ....
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Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called 'physician assisted suicide.'
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Assisted suicide: The deliberate hastening of death by a terminally ill patient with assistance from a doctor, family member, or another individual.
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Suicide of a terminally ill or otherwise incapable person with help (such as painless drugs) from a physician, family member, or other individual. A form of euthanasia, assisted suicide is illegal in almost all states.
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n] - suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
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noun suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
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suicide aided by a person, esp. a physician, who organizes the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison.
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